Researchers have used CRISPR-Cas9 to edit long-lived blood stem cells to reverse the clinical symptoms observed with several blood disorders, including sickle cell disease and beta-thalassemia. …read more Source:: Science
Month: July 2019
TESS satellite uncovers ‘first nearby super-Earth’
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•NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), a mission designed to comb the heavens for exoplanets, has discovered its first potentially habitable world outside of our own solar system — and …read more Source:: Science
Confirmation of toasty TESS planet leads to surprising find of promising world
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•A piping hot planet discovered by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has pointed the way to additional worlds orbiting the same star, one of which is located in the …read more Source:: Science
The VR Linux desktop is on its way
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•Want to use the GNOME or KDE Linux desktops on your virtual reality headset? A new open-source project aims to let you play games and use your Linux desktop with …read more Source:: Linux
13 free tools for API design, development, and testing
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•By Serdar Yegulalp The rise of RESTful APIs has been met by a rise in tools for creating, testing, and managing them. Whether you’re an API newbie or an expert …read more Source:: OpenSource
Mysterious release of radioactive material uncovered
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•It was the most serious release of radioactive material since Fukushima 2011, but the public took little notice of it: In September 2017, a slightly radioactive cloud moved across Europe. …read more Source:: Science
Linus Torvalds prepares to wave goodbye to Linux floppy drives
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•TIme moves on and the venerable, but increasingly rare, floppy drive won’t be supported in Linux for much longer. …read more Source:: Linux
TESS discovers three new planets nearby, including temperate ‘sub-Neptune’
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•NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, has discovered three new worlds that are among the smallest, nearest exoplanets known to date. The planets orbit a star just 73 light …read more Source:: Science
High levels of estrogen in the womb linked to autism
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•Scientist have identified a link between exposure to high levels of estrogen sex hormones in the womb and the likelihood of developing autism. …read more Source:: Science
NPM: Free public JavaScript registry will continue
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•By Paul Krill Is the public NPM JavaScript package registry going away? NPM, the company behind the popular online repository of Node.js and JavaScript code, insists it will remain, despite a recent …read more Source:: OpenSource